The Spaceships of Ezekiel
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The Spaceships of Ezekiel is a book by German engineer Josef F. Blumrich about a spaceship that was supposedly observed by the prophet Ezekiel as described in Book of Ezekiel in the Tanakh. Blumrich w
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Merkabah mysticism
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Merkabah or Merkavah mysticism is a school of early Jewish mysticism, centered on visions such as those found in Ezekiel 1 or in the hekhalot literature, concerning stories of ascents to the heavenly
The Spaceships of Ezekiel
…pseudoscience as well as being an example of euhemerism. After ufologists such as Erich von Däniken had pointed to the possibility of interpreting Ezekiel's Merkabah vision as a report of an extraterrestrial spacecraft, Blumrich decided to disprove the hypothesis. However, a thorough examination convinced him that…
Copy of Matthäus Merian's engraving of Ezekiel's vision (1670)
Ezekiel's Wheel in St. John the Baptist Church in Kratovo, North Macedonia. Fresco from the 19th century.
Tomb of Yohanan ben Zakkai in Tiberias
Talmud on the Knesset Menorah. References in rabbinic Talmud and Midrash to merkabah mysticism are brief, avoiding explanation.